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[quote name='warwickhunt' post='416036' date='Feb 21 2009, 11:00 AM']Nice one. Just as an aside; has anyone swapped pups on their DJ and got recordings of before and after? Obviously pup selection makes a difference in a bass but I've known some basses where it makes a bigger difference than it does in others.[/quote] Swapped from what to what? I'm just about to remove the Lindy Fralins that came in it and install some Aeros that arrived from Hawaii yesterday, to get it back to stock. I have no means of recording anything however.

Agree with all of the above. Excellent company to deal with.

I've recently had a searing pain in my right elbow which came on as the reult of painting a wall. Very difficult to raise the arm above horizontal and painful to twist or indeed use scissors or cutters. I tthough it would go away but it didn't so as a last resort I went to the docs and he diagnosed tennis elbow. I told him that I didn't play tennis but he just ignored me gave me a steroid injection in the part of the elbow where all the tendons meet. It's pretty well fixed it now. Go and consult your doc Alan.

[quote name='ogri' post='409063' date='Feb 13 2009, 09:24 PM']just dug two out that have sat in the outside shed for nearly ten years, plugged em in, waited for the valves to warm up and... they both worked! faultlessly..not even noisy. thats handwiring for ya..christ they built things to last back then..i used to use em as a pair with the jolly old rick-o-sound stereo jack in me '77 bass, miked up..what a palaver. anyway, left em in our local music shop this morning, by this afternoon a few guitarists are creaming theirselves over them and wanting to buy em(they do sound berluddy good), but i have no idea what they are worth. i gave fifty quid each for em but that was about fifteen years ago. theres two on ebay, one is at about a fiver with the back missing, the other has no valves but the bloke still wants £245 for it!! so not much of a guide there.. ..anybody got any idea what they are worth? tenner..? fifty..? a ton..? cant really see them being worth all that, but they sound better than an old marshall plexi, more like a '45 or a good vox[/quote] Considerably more than you imagine. Have a look at Ebay "Selmer" completed listings.

It'll be worth the wait.

I think he's got a screw loose. (I'll get my coat)

[quote name='niceguyhomer' post='403909' date='Feb 8 2009, 11:09 PM']Thanks Dave - are you up to anything at the moment?[/quote] No nothing apart from house band at a local jam once every 5-weeks and maybe an occasional dep. I was rehearsing with a rock band but the drummer and I had serious musical differences so I walked. His attitude from the outset was "I don't need to rehearse" and then proceeded to play certain iconic rock classics in his own style and not as original which basically wrecked the rythmn and made it impossible to lock in with. I'm all for creating ones own arrangements but there are some numbers that you don't mess with. I could see that it would just end in arguments so I got out quickly. A shame because the two guitarists were very good. I'm sure something will pop up soon but I'm too old to panic about not having a gig.

Well done Al. That's an interesting list and should be fun.

[quote name='Linus27' post='401106' date='Feb 5 2009, 03:14 PM']Am I also thinking that the fan is on top of the unit and so this would be covered if you rack mounted it????[/quote] Not necessarily. It's not a full 2U high so if it was fitted at the bottom of some 2U brackets there would be sufficient space above. I've written to Ashdown. I'm pretty certain that the bracketes conform to the EIAJ (USA and Japan) specs which is different to BSI/IEC.

I'm using my LG1000 for the first time in the house band rig at the local Jam tonight. just to tidy things up I thought I'd rack mount it in a flight case. bad idea. Firstly it is neither 1U or 2U high and the holes in the supplied brackets don't line up with the rack strip cage nuts. Basically the rack brackets do not conform to BS5954 or IEC297 which is the "Specification for Dimensions of panels and racks for electronic equipment". Really bad design.

[quote name='jim_bass' post='400435' date='Feb 4 2009, 09:25 PM']What about the other way around... Would it damage your bass/amp using speaker cable instead of a guitar cable to plug in your bass?[/quote] Speaker cables are designed to volts and amps. the levels are high and as there is little chance of induced in interfernce they are not shielded to keep out the unwanted. Instrument cables are designed and required to carry miilivolts and milliamps. Because the levels are so low the cable is co-axial with a shield around the outside of the signal conductor to protect it from interference. It would not damage your amp using a speaker cable as an instrument cable, however it might well damage your hearing. I guarantee you would only do it for about 30-seconds as your beautiful bass tone gets lost in the induced interference, microphony, etc. Speaker cables are for speakers, instrument cables are for instruments. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I've been down this road with my lakland Duck Dunn. The pick-ups are [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lindy-Fralin-Precision-Split-Coil-Jazz-Bass-Pickups_W0QQitemZ270339480049"]Lindy Fralin Split Coil[/url] They come as a matched pair. No problems with imbalance or hum/noise when using bridge only. have stack-knob controls V/T + V/T so I can tweak the tone from each pick-up independently. Routing was done by the Gallery. Sent them the body and they routed out for the pick-up, plus a battery box and side jack just in case I want to make it active in the future.

[quote name='owen968' post='399335' date='Feb 3 2009, 07:50 PM']been doing a bit more research on the power conditioner subject, dont they also manage the electric input which can reduce the electric hum you get when you have a lot of electrical goods?[/quote] Nope. Mains is 50Hz. Hum is 50hz, usually the result of poor earthing or mains crosstalk into poor signal cables. Get really good cables and check your earth continuity. Can be the result of running a wallwart or pedal PSU beyond its capacity causing the volts to be dragged down. Can be induced by inferior design equipment power supplies. A Power Conditioner will do nothing to eliminate these problems. [quote name='owen968' post='399335' date='Feb 3 2009, 07:50 PM']Also i wanted to reduce the amount of wires in my stack for ease of use.[/quote] As already mentioned, get a power distribution strip.

I would have thought that an Alesis SR16 would do what you want. You can programme your own patterns and use the patterns to make complete songs. They go quite cheaply now. In fact I have one I don't use any more.

Power conditioners are a waste of money if you live and play in the UK. Our power system is much more stable and better regulated than in the USA. If you want it for the myriad of IEC outlet sockets there are other, probably cheaper, alternatives. In all my years of playing I've never used one or felt the slightest need for one.